The first business was to make a fire, an operation which was a little delayed by the wetnessof the fuel and the ground, owing to the heavy showers of the afternoon.
The chill wetness of his little white garden-gate reminded him, and a frown came on his face.
He remained, with the wetness of her cheek smarting on his, looking from under his brows at the white transport of the water beneath the moon.
The rain stopped, and in a rich autumnal sunset they walked together for the last time over the golden puddles and spangled wetness of the Leas.
The turmoil of voices rose again into the wetness of the night, and weapons were upraised menacingly.
Phorenice was all graciousness, and though it was little enough I cared for mere wetness of my coat, still that part of the harbour into which we had been thrown by the mammoth was not over savoury, and I was glad enough to follow her example.
By the time they reached ground level Travis felt a warm wetness spreading under his shielding palm and he knew the wound had opened.
A wetness other than that from the coyote's tongue slid down his forehead now.
Though inclined to impute the complaint to a deeper cause than the wetness of the season, I conceived that damp would, as a matter of course, increase any tendency to decay, and I took my measures accordingly.
I may mention a peculiar characteristic of this year, if we take into consideration the wetness of the season; which is, that scarcely a sprouted ear of corn is to be found any where, notwithstanding that the crop was laid in many instances.
Those of the workmen who were not much afflicted with sea-sickness, came upon deck, and the wetness below being dried up, the cabins were again brought into a habitable state.
Before I had spent I had felt her wetness on my fingers.
The young man looked long and fixedly on the place, the sight of which interested him so much that he had forgotten, in the eagerness of youthful curiosity, the wetness of his dress.
And the sound of itswetness beat unceasingly on his ears like a din of unintelligible voices bewildering his brain.
Kiopo felt now as if the heavy wetness of the water had developed long tentacles that seized him and sucked him down.
The wetness on his shoulder was unnerving, the absence of pain incredible.
The terrible dark wetness directly over the wound was of course invisible, completely concealed by the commander's tightly laced arms.
The wetness of the summer and autumn had soured and fermented the grain so lamentably, that the use of it transformed the sickness occasioned by the unripe and bad potatoes into a terrible and desolating epidemic.
Indeed, the appearance of the country, in consequence of this wetness in the firing, was singularly dreary and depressing.
And as he felt the wetness of her face he cried out, "Oh, mummie, have I made you cry?
She liked the wetness of the flags under her stockinged feet, the fall of the rain on her face.
The quality or state of being wet; moisture; humidity; as, the wetness of land; the wetness of a cloth.
Note: Wetness generally implies more water or liquid than is implied by humidness or moisture.
A watery or moist state of the atmosphere; a state of being rainy, foggy, or misty; as, the wetness of weather or the season.
From somewhere, wetnesstouched his cheek; he lifted his head and looked down.
The wetness came from tears that spilled out of her eyes and ran off onto the mattress.
The lips, thickened and rolling back at intervals from her teeth, revealed more distinctly that animal, exaggerated wetness which had so repelled him.
Her lips were suddenly thick, taking on that appearance of abnormal wetness which had so revolted him before.
There flashed across his mind a picture of that incomprehensible woman's face, the black line of her eyebrows lifted half-way to her hair, the abnormal wetness of her lips thickened by a sneer.
If we resolve it into its constituent gases we destroy its aquosity, but by uniting these gases chemically we have the wetness back again.
But vitality will not come at your beck; it is not a chemical product, at least in the same sense that water is; it is not in the same category as the wetnessor liquidity of water.
And you can walk on the wetness without much noise.
This was matter of surprise, especially considering the wetness of the climate; and these sheep are often exposed in fields where a dry spot cannot be found for them to lie down upon.
Excessive wetness is prejudicial and destructive to the crops.
The season was late, but the girls felt with a rush of delight that summer was with them at last; the air was soft and warm, and there was a general sense of being freed from the winter's wetness and heaviness.
Her indignant glance sobered him; he hastily arranged money matters, and that night she got off the train in the dark wetness of the valley, and was met by a rush of cool and fragrant air.
Cherry could smell grapes, and smell the pleasant wetness of the dust where the late watering cart had passed by, after sunset.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wetness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
